I move:
That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, in the Orders of Reference of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service or in the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995, on the presentation in Dáil Éireann by the Minister for Finance of a Standards in Public Office Bill, 2000, the Bill shall stand referred for consideration of the general subject matter of its provisions to –
(i)the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, and
(ii)the Committee on Members' Interests of Seanad Éireann;
and each such Committee shall, not later than 3 October, 2000 send a message to Seanad Éireann in the manner prescribed in Standing Order 67".